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American socialite, philanthropist, and member of the Trump Family From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Martha Lindley Blaine Trump (née Beard; born 1948)[1] is an American socialite. For 29 years she was the wife of real-estate heir Robert Trump.
Blaine Trump was born Martha Lindley Blaine Beard,[1] and grew up in South Carolina, Florida and Alabama. Her father, Joseph Beard,[2][3] was a top executive at IBM.[4] Blaine and her family moved to Yokohama due to her father's job when she was ten. There, she attended the International School of the Sacred Heart.[4] She later graduated from the American School of Paris in Louveciennes. She attended Bennett College in Millbrook, New York, and then[5] the University of Tokyo before dropping out to marry Peter Retchin.[6]
Trump is a trustee of the American Ballet Theatre.[7]
In 1998, Trump received the Marietta Tree Award for public service from the New York City citizens' committee.[citation needed]
Blaine Trump has been married and divorced twice. First she was briefly married to Peter Retchin, with whom she had a child in 1978, Christopher Hollister who is a real estate executive.[6][8]
In 1984 she married Robert Trump, who worked in his property-developer family firm Trump Organization and they were together for 25 years, from 1984 to 2009.[9] In October 2004, Blaine overdosed on pills and was hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York after she learned her husband had bought a $3.7 million house on Long Island for his girlfriend, Ann Marie Pallan, who was his secretary for many years.[10] They were involved in a lengthy divorce battle. The divorce was filed in 2007, went to court in 2008, and they reached a secret settlement in 2010.[11]
After Robert and Blaine separated, in 2006, after more than 20 years of marriage, they put their 6,500-square-foot, three-unit, three-floor, unfinished co-op residence on the market.[12]
In 2012, Blaine Trump put her $17.5 million mansion in Millbrook, New York, up for sale.[13]
In 2017, Blaine Trump and her life partner Steve Simon attended President Donald Trump's inauguration ball in Washington.[14][15]
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